Man Bao was taken aback, and said, "I don't want to turn my professional field into a private field, isn't that a national farm?"
She said: "I just want to manage the tenants and the job field by myself, cultivate more meticulously, and the harvest will be higher. If I don't become an official in the future, or if I change the official position and job field, the original job field will be sure. I will return it."
Liu Huan said: "I also said that you are not such a person. Grandpa didn't doubt it. He just said that the management of the job field is also very complicated. If you want to take care of it yourself, you can only go to the Ministry of Households to apply for registration."
Bai Shan then said to Man Bao: "That's probably all right, I'll go with you when I find time later."
Man Bao rolled his eyes and said: "Mr.'s job field is near me, let's ask Mr. to join us."
Mr. Zhuang doesn't worry about job titles at all. He is now fully focused on studying and teaching the crown prince and his three disciples. Job titles should not be the same as salary. When the time comes, he will get what he deserves. Is it ok
But Man Bao is full of confidence, and there are many people from the old Zhou family in the capital. In terms of farming, they are much better than him, so he nodded after thinking about it.
Then he said: "It is not easy for you to come out of the palace. Since you have already mentioned it in writing to Liu Shang, then you can leave this matter to me. I will go to the household department to apply for the formalities."
Both Man Bao and Bai Shan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, it was an exception, and they were still a little embarrassed.
Mr. Zhuang smiled at them, comforted them and let them play, keeping this matter in his heart.
The reason why he took the initiative to take over this matter was to find out more details.
He doesn't know much about the management of the job field, but as far as he knows, the job field has always been managed by the household department. part delivery.
Even the local officials, there are special people in the yamen who are responsible for this matter, but, compared with the Beijing officials, most of the local officials can manage their own fields.
After all, it is under my own jurisdiction, which is very convenient.
Unlike Beijing officials, the job fields have radiated to Yongzhou, Shangzhou, Liangzhou and other places.
Therefore, except for those with a large number of occupations who are required to manage by themselves, most officials are managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Because the cost of management is also quite a lot, it is better to hand it over to the household department to save a lot of effort.
When Mr. Zhuang found the household department, the official in charge of the household department only took one look at Mr. Zhuang and gave him two forms for him to fill out.
Then said: "Master Zhou has to use her seal to confirm that it is her own intention."
At a glance, Mr. Zhuang knew that someone had already greeted him, so he smiled and asked about the current situation of the job field.
Even though the Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the careers of officials, big and small, the rank of the officials in charge of this matter is not high, only seventh rank, slightly higher than Mr. Zhuang.
Because Mr. Zhuang came to apply for self-management, he happened to have to explain some precautions to him, so he took the opportunity to talk about the management of this job field.
Mr. Zhuang went back to the Chongwen Museum with a pensive expression on his face, and then called Man Bao to the front. Of course, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang happened to be having lunch, so the three of them were called to the front together.
"Manbao, you have a total of a thousand acres of land. With so much land, have you thought about how to cultivate it?"
Man Bao immediately said: "Isn't there a tenant farmer? When the time comes, just tell the tenant farmer. My father wants to take care of it himself."
Mr. Zhuang said: "Maybe there will be no sharecroppers."
Man Bao's eyes widened, and Bai Shan raised his head in surprise, "How come there are no tenant farmers?"
"Because tenant farmers are hard to hire." Mr. Zhuang said: "Why do you think the Ministry of Household Affairs is so loose, and you want to manage the land by yourself and give it to you immediately?"
He said: "Because the job field is not easy to manage at all."
Not only is it difficult to manage, it is simply a waste of time and effort.
Regardless of the fact that most of the farmland is good land, people from the household department said that there are not many tenant farmers who are willing to rent farmland. "The imperial court rarely gave them good seeds and farm tools, but the rent was fixed. The rent for one mu of land ranged from two buckets of rice to six Between buckets of rice, it is determined according to the situation of land fertilizer."
After doing some calculations, Bai Shan said, "It's reasonable."
Mr. Zhuang nodded and said: "But this must be given. Renting other people's land, the owner may also give some good seeds and farm tools, but the imperial court has nothing, so they don't like renting land."
"Many tenant farmers are forced to rent and farm, so if you want to manage your own land, it may be difficult to recruit tenants."
Man Bao said: "You have to see it in person to know."
After counting the days, Bai Shan said: "In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival. I heard that there will be foreign feudal vassals coming to court in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year. They will have a few more days off. Otherwise, let's go to Yongzhou to see?"
Man Bao's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Okay, okay."
Even if you don't want to see the job field, it's good to go to Yongzhou for a while.
Bai Erlang also wanted to go, "Anyway, it's not far away, and we'll be there in half a day. We can stay in the village for a few more days. I heard that the sheep and scorpions in Yongzhou are very delicious."
Bai Shan and Man Bao wanted to go even more.
Mr. Zhuang, who still had a lot of things to say in the future, was silent for a moment and then simply handed a pamphlet to Man Bao, "Although the employment land is handed over to us to manage, there are also requirements, such as all rents and taxes with tenant farmers, fixed The rent cannot exceed six buckets of rice, and the sub-rent cannot exceed 60%.”
This is also the only measure the imperial court can take to protect the tenant farmers.
Man Bao responded, and after reading the regulations, he said to Bai Erlang: "You can actually ask for 60% of the sub-rent, but it's really dark. I thought everyone would ask for 40%. Isn't your family always taking 40%?"
"It's divided into places," Bai Erlang didn't know much about it, but every year the head of the village came to report the situation, so he also listened to it, and said, "In some places, my father also takes 50% of the income."
Man Bao was curious, "Why is it different?"
Bai Erlang: "How do I know? Why don't I ask my father for you when I go back?"
Bai Shandao: "Because the places are different, the soil fertilizers are also different."
He said: "After all, Luojiang County is the place where I live. Even if I want to make friends with my neighbors, I should collect less tax. In other places, I will take less for thin land and more for fertile land. Now my family is in Longzhou. The rent and tax collected in the area is mostly 40%, only some places are 50%.”
Man Bao and Bai Erlang were stunned when they heard this.
"Grandmother said, even if we don't live in Longzhou now, it's still our hometown. Where our family is located, we should manage the local area well." Bai Shan said meaningfully: "Rabbits don't even eat grass beside their nests. The surrounding areas where my family is located are all rented heavily, and most of them will not last long, even the aristocratic families, they have to be more lenient to the tenants around their home."
It's a very realistic question, but for some reason, Man Bao's heart felt a little cold, and she thought to herself: Isn't this the exploitation written in some books in the encyclopedia
Bai Shan obviously thought of it too, and after taking a look at Man Bao, he said, "It may not be a bad thing for the tenant farmers if you want to manage the land by yourself."